Gary Snyder
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Gary Sherman Snyder is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".
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If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
Burning, from No Nature; New and Selected Poems (1992)
I recalled when I worked in the woodsand the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness - America - your stupidity. I could almost love you again.
I Went into the Maverick Bar, from No Nature; New and Selected Poems (1992)
How could we be were it not for this planet that provided our very shape?
The Practice of the Wild (1990)
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Gary Sherman Snyder is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis, and for a time served as a member of the California Arts Council.
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